In re the Final Judicial Settlement of the Accounts of Haight

Hopkins, S.

The question presented for determination in this matter is: Does Lucy Barlow, a legally adopted daughter of one Jonathan Hyatt, a brother of the testator, share in the distribution of the real and personal property of the testator, with his natural-bom nephews and nieces, under the terms of the will ? The provision of testator’s will under which this controversy arises reads as follows: “ Fourth. I give, bequeath and devise all the rest, residue and remainder of my estate, both real and personal to all my nephews and nieces (children of my brothers and sister), share and share…